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How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores

FastSpring

If you’re not sure how to sell an app direct to consumer (D2C) outside the app stores — or if you’re looking for a new way to monetize your mobile app or game — you may be wondering what options you have. Various tools you can use to monetize apps and games outside app stores. Those fees also apply to in-game purchases as well.

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What is Games as a Service (GaaS) and What Does it Mean For Marketers?

Kissmetrics

Games as a Service (GaaS) was introduced as a barrier between consumer cost concerns and user engagement. It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. What Is Games as a Service (GaaS)?

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How to Start a Subscription Business that Works

Ecommerce Platforms

From Birchbox to Dollar Shave Club, and Kiwi Crate to Netflix, we seem to live in a world of subscriptions, whether it be for software, movies, clothing, food, or whatever else you don't mind paying for with a monthly subscription. There's a reason so many subscription-based business models seem to be popping up.

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The Case For Subscription Service In CPG

Retail TouchPoints

Without the big brands in the game, the large CPGs will never gain the scale required to realize the full benefits of selling direct. The Shift To Subscription Models. Businesses across many industries are shifting toward a new business model, one driven by subscriptions rather than singular product purchases.

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Subscription Ecommerce Websites Saw 4,461% Revenue Boom in 5 Years: 20 Brands Reaping the Benefits

BigCommerce

Don’t even say it out loud: Subscription boxes are not dead. Heralded as the newest, greatest ecommerce strategy beginning around 2010, subscription box services like BirchBox, Trunk Club and Dollar Shave Club have not only made headlines – they’ve made billions. In 2011, subscription brands made an estimated $57,000,000.

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Even Late to the Paid Membership Party, Target Believes it’s ‘Starting from a Position of Strength’

Retail TouchPoints

Fighting Subscription Fatigue as Consumers Shed Memberships As Prime has proven for years, getting customers into a paid membership program can pay off in spades for retailers. In fact, just as more retailers are adding subscription offerings, consumers are shedding them. So the big question is — what happens next?

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Harnessing the huge marketing potential of subscription services

365 Retail

Subscription services really took off in 2020 thanks to a combination of lockdown driving online shopping, consumers’ desire to save money, and the innate convenience of the subscription model. The subscription phenomenon. So what does 2022 hold for the subscriptions market? billion by 2025.